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EMBROIDERED ORNAMENT.

No. 301,485. Patented July 8, 1884.

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EMBROIDERED ORNAMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 301,485, dated July 8, 1884. Application filed February 5, 188i. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAURA DE Mnnsnnnn, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invent-ed a certain new and useful Improvement in Embroidered Ornaments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a new article of manufacture, viz: an embroidered ornamentsuch as a flower-leaf, butterfly, or the likein which certain of the threads are applied and out in a special manner, with a view to imparting to portions of the article a fluffy appearance, resembling, in a general way, chenille. by a line or lines of stitches, or embroidered, constituting a border, which defines and gives finish to its outline, and serves to prevent the fabric backing, on which the ornament is our broidered, from raveling at the point where' the fluffed-up threads are out. I also overlay the fabric backing at certain points with threads or strands harmonizing in color with the general design, these threads or strands being applied before the application of those threads which are to be cut, and insuch posi-' tion or location as to cover those parts of the fabric backing which might otherwise be exposed to view after the cuttingand lifting of the other threads.

The invention is fully illustrated in the ac companying drawings, a View of an ornament-in this instance a flower-as it appears after the embroidering operation, and before the cutting and finding up of the threads hereinbefore referred to. Fig. 2 is a View of the completed article. Fig. 3 is a section, enlarged, on line as a, Fig. 2. Fig is a diagrammatic representation, onan enlarged scale, of the manner in which the threads to be out are laid.

The backing A, on which the design is embroidered, is of any suitable fabric. The design is embroidered upon this backing, as indicated in Fig. 1, the threads used being silk, worsted, or any preferred material.

In Fig. 1 the parts of the design marked a are those which contain the threads to be cut and dotted up. These threads (lettered bin Fig. 4) are applied in stitches which start at The article is preferably surrounded in which Figure l is ing the threads to be cut, and at the other end from a point just a little past the longitudinal center of the portion to be out and fluffed up. There are thus, as seen, two rows of stitches, which overlap one another at their inner contiguous ends, this overlapping serving .to hold the threads firmly when their outer ends are cut. \Vhen the stitches or their outer ends, or end next the border, and are then fluifed up, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. -When this is done there is liability that portions of the backing A may be uncovered and exposed. To provide for this contingency I apply,with an embroidery-stitch, threads (I, of harmonious color, (seen in Fig. 3,) which are seen in place before the threads Z1 (which overlie them) are applied, and thus serve to cover those portions of the fabric backing A, which otherwise might be left bare by the cutting and raising of threads 6.

The border of embroidering surrounding the article is indicated at c. It is preferred to outline the whole of the ornament, save the stem and other slender parts, with this border, for reasons hereinbefore given, and it may also, with good effect, be employed on individual portions of the design to outline some or all of the chenille-like parts, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

The direction of the covering-stitches d in relation to that of the overlaid stitches Z) is indicated plainly in the diagram, Fig. 4. By being placed in this direction they are not liable to be out when the outer ends of the stitches b are cut.

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An embroidered flower or other ornament having threads Z) out and fiuffed as described, and underlaid threads (1, covering the .portions of the fabric backing left bare by the out threads 6, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 1st day of February, A. D. l 1884.

I L. DE MAESENER. XVitnesses:

M. BAILEY, H. HARDY.

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\Vha-t I claim, and desire to secure by Let- 

